The luxury destination in Corinth, which includes the rarest airport in the world

the Sarantapicho Corinth In the 1930s it was reminiscent of Switzerland, and to this day it maintains its beauty, but unfortunately in the last census conducted in 2001, only three permanent residents were counted, and today there are none.

There are about 50 houses that are only visited by their owners during the summer months, and also during the summer months a café-pub operates for the Matsimane family.

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From 1927 to 1940, the area was a world center for entertainment and leisure, attracting elite visitors from Greece and abroad. In 1932 one was built Modern three-storey hotel Unprecedented and luxurious for the era of the 1930s, the Renaissance era, which included 70 rooms with bathrooms, a large restaurant with a hall for events, a telephone exchange, something unprecedented in an era that did not even exist in major cities, power generators, a water supply network, an ice plant, tennis courts and other games. Sports, gaming club, cinema, etc.

Also around this were 3 independent buildings hosting distinguished guests, such as King Farouk of Egypt, the Ambassador of England, Exarchopoulos Arvanitopoulos Logothitopoulos Lambropoulos (of the department stores), Triantis (the mills of Patras), or Manganaris (the doctor). Patras) etc. A.

In the newspaper Hellenikon Melun of September 1, 1929, the names of holidaymakers from the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Egypt who spent the summer in Sarantabehe are mentioned.

The airport is at an altitude of 1315 metres

In the 1930s, an airport was established at Sarantabecus to cater to high-ranking visitors. It was an airfield at an altitude of 1,315 metres, a world rare at that time. Students and doctors from Egypt were constantly brought there and attended seminars and conferences organized in the rooms of the Anagennisis Hotel.

In the Arbaeen War, the Italians destroyed the airport runway. They used bulldozers to open grooves in the airstrip to prevent planes from landing, which over the years became the large streams filled with spruce and pine trees that they are today.

Sarantabahu today

After the war of 1940, Sarantapicho lost all its glory, was looted and abandoned by everyone and everything, with the result that today it does not have a single permanent resident and the Anagenesis Hotel, which at that time was the most luxurious and modern hotel in Greece, was completely demolished and only some ruins remind us that it There was an unprecedented and luxurious hotel here, which hosted all the dignitaries of the time, the first and largest hotel in the Balkans.